Missing A Conference

Over the last few weeks my social media stream has been filled with pictures and memories of times gone by for Lotusphere/Connect, these memories have been more than a little bit painful as they were all great times, a meeting time for great friends as well as for a community spirit that I’ve never met in any other technology, not Salesforce, nor Java, node or MongoDB,

This community still does exist, even though it has shrunk over the last couple of years, however there is hope that with the recent changes and the hopeful reinvigoration by IBM/HCL as well as the constant work of such core community leaders such as Gabriella Davis that it will return and maybe even grow, having basically opted out of the community for the last year or so through a mixture of client demands and ever-increasing work load, I am now reminded by these pictures and memories how important such a community is, and not just to work and to business but to friendship and general sanity,

Long live the yellow bubble!!!

⇑ My First Lotusphere, young fresh-faced and not fat



⇑ Presenting for the first time at Lotusphere

⇑ On the Piss with good friends

⇑ The famous “all bloggers” photo

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